Guest Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Nobody said it was rare but its a it more than a turned over waste bin etc. I Know I'd be frustrated without power and even more pissed off if the tree in my front garden had gone down. If the weather folk hadn't hyped this up and it turned out worse there'd be a much longer topic than this assuming people had the power to post But it's not a great big deal is it? Death and damage is a big deal, a power cut isn't.
ozleicester Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 what about scenes of devastation such as this? Oh my god.. its blown a wookie in from... um, wherever it is that wookies live
Guest Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Yes it looks terrible, she needs a new umbrella as the storm was devastating. The poor woman we should get together and raise some money so she can have a new umbrella More worried about the hairdressing bill myself.
Rocket-Ron Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24699748 I'm glad we didn't get the storms
Guest Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 sea looks great - similar to here yesteday but why would anyone be going for a swim?
Guest Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 I think the storm in 1997 had Wind speeds of 194km/h in Royan ( a few kms from here) but I read that in Chamonix (summit of a mountain) 320km/h was registered. 88 people died and 3.5m homes were without electricity. Surprisingly few deaths considering.
MooseBreath Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Looks like the path fell south and the channel bore most of the brunt. Lucky really, seems like it did a fair bit of damage to the relatively small areas of land it did hit.
Guest Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 After 5 years without a real storm you'd expect a lot of the dying, weakened trees to come down. This could have been mitigated by work from local councils - and it probably was. A few old weak trees falling in the Wind is natural. I just hope the tree that killed the driver wasn't one of those which could therefore have been prevented.
purpleronnie Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 I slept through it. What happened? Hungover again?
Rincewind Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Hungover again? No. I just don't get up at 5.am. I heard it raining before 9 but iy had stopped when I got up and the sun is out now.
Guest Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Severe Gails later Is that the Gale that Rincewind slept through?
kingfox Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Hardly heard anything either to be honest. Bloody shit it was, I was expecting a flying cow to hit my window. Aylestone is probably flooded though, might go for a swim later.
MPH Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 So, is everyone dead in Leicester then? On a serious note I have relatives living on the south coast and they have been without electric for several hours now....
Trav Le Bleu Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Whilst there have sadly been a couple of deaths, I wonder whether the storm would have been quite the big story on the news if it had passed 100 miles further north.
Bert Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 It was raining fast at 4am, but that's about the brunt of it here.
Saxondale Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 I'm glad we missed out on all that nonsense. It's actually been eerily normal. That said, I just walked into Syston and the Barkby Brook was unusually high and very fast flowing. Weird, because it doesn't seem like we've had that much rain.
Mack Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 The Clerk of the course at Leicester said the gauge was reading 25mm of rain that fell overnight. Whilst it wasn't very hard it was over a few hours and persistent. The news media seem very keen to hype this type of story up for two reasons: 1) If all hell breaks loose they have a huge story to get their teeth into and run with all day for all the doom lovers to drool over from their settees. 2) If they don't warn people then if all hell does break loose they will get slaughtered for not warning people.
hairy Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 I'm glad we missed out on all that nonsense. It's actually been eerily normal. That said, I just walked into Syston and the Barkby Brook was unusually high and very fast flowing. Weird, because it doesn't seem like we've had that much rain. The river in Glen is flooded and for only the third time in nine years its in my garden. We did have a lot of rain.
Zingari Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 I slept through it. What happened? It's made some homeless people even more homeless. Cardboard boxes just couldn't take the battering
OzFox Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 It's made some homeless people even more homeless. Cardboard boxes just couldn't take the battering Some people have all the luck
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 Two fence panels down, and felt ripped off shed. Next door but one had large cherry tree blown over, breaking their green house.
Zingari Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 A friend of mine has had some bad luck in the storm. He parked his car under some trees and they got blown over . They all feckin well missed his car and he was furious as he hoping to get the old jalopy written off by the insurance and cash in . He had to tow it there too , now he's got to go and tow it back unscathed
Lamby Posted 28 October 2013 Posted 28 October 2013 It's all nice here, will see the damage (if any) when I go up the bookies later
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